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Salicylate-induced rhabdomyolysis
L J Leventhal1, L Kuritsky, R Ginsburg
1Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104.
The American Journal of Emergency Medicine
|July 1, 1989
Abstract:
A 42-year-old woman was hospitalized with aspirin intoxication. The patient developed massive skeletal muscle damage without any evidence of muscle compression, hyperthermia, or other predisposing factors. The exact mechanism by which salicylates cause muscle damage is unknown, but the muscle damage appears to be the result of a direct toxic effect. This represents the first case of isolated salicylate-induced rhabdomyolysis.